While I'm not personally a fan of KDE/QT, it seems to me that a lot of people here are (or at least were until KDE4) and I'd really like to see some effort in getting a recent KDE into the book. I just looked at the release tarballs for KDE-4.5.1, and they look like the same layout as the older KDE releases, well for as far back as I can remember anyway. I mean, what, there are 22 instead of like 18 groups of packages now, but still very similar to the last one that I had built before jumping ship to Gnome (think I made the change around 3.0's release time, and might have built to the desktop once after that for OpenOffice deps). Once the dependencies are worked out, it really can't be that much more of a pain than say Gnome (minus the cmake learning curve).
In order to get it started, all of the dependencies do not have to be added into the book immediately, so long as we have a fairly reliable list and external links to the developers page, they can be added over time. If somebody wants to make a list of known dependencies (optional and required to the best of their ability) and some high and low build times and sizes, I'd be happy to start working on the XML if that is what is keeping people from trying to get it into the book. I had intended to start working on it myself, using CBLFS as a guide, but I'm truly a Gnome die-hard and really not interested in running KDE for my daily use. That being the case, anything that I would add would likely fall to bitrot very quickly, so I want some help from somebody who does use it as their daily desktop. If the KDE4 section is not reasonably complete when it comes time for a release, no biggie. We'll just comment out the kde4 section and release without it, un-comment after release so that it can continue to grow in SVN. Are there any objections among the editors to that approach (assuming that somebody else is interested in contributing) and is there anybody willing to contribute? I'll be tied up with getting the new Gnome working for myself for a couple of weeks, and then William's suggestion on merging the DHCP client service scripts and related external bits (for which I've forgotten the specifics now). But I should free up in the not too distant future to dedicate some time to this if there is any interest at all. -- DJ Lucas -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content, and is believed to be clean. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
